Wesker's Domestic Plays

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Wesker's Domestic Plays

Plays, playscripts

Author: Arnold Wesker

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Language: English

Published by: Oberon Books

Published on: 7th September 2012

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 320 pages

ISBN: 9781849436915


In The Friends (1970)

Esther is diagnosed with leukaemia, causing her friends to reassess their working-class identity, their imagined achievements as well as their own mortality.

Bluey (1993)

It is a play about repressed memory resurfacing and three imagined futures that the protagonist cannot muster the courage to confront.

Men Die Women Survive (1990)

A trio of estranged wives gather around the dinner table. As they conduct a post-mortem on their failed relationships, a tale of betrayal and revenge emerges.

Wild Spring (1992)

Telling the story of a 44-year-old actress Gertie and her influence on Sam, a black teenager working as a car-park attendant, Wild Spring explores acting as a metaphor for the false images of ourselves with which we fall in love.

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